Movies Released on August 26, 2011
Last weekend, The Help had an excellent second weekend dropping less than 25% from its debut and will now easily pass $100 million by the end of summer. In second place, Apes has a good third week with $16 million. The same couldn't be said for the quartet of new movies. The 4th Spy Kids movie couldn't crack $12 million. That was the lowest open of the franchise and less than half of the original's open a decade ago. In fourth place, Conan bearly passed $10 million and, in fifth, Fright Night sold just $8 million in tickets. One Day finished in 9th place with $5 million.... Read More
Brighton Rock 11 theaters
Andrea Riseborough Sam Riley Pete Postlethwaite Helen Mirren
The story centers on a small-time gangster who kills a rival and finds his life in turmoil as he faces blackmail threats from a waitress (Andrea Riseborough) who knows ab... moreout the murder.
BuzzKill Limited
Krysten Ritter Darrell Hammond
A struggling writer, Ray Wyatt, acquires fame when a notorious murderer steals his car and the newest draft of his script.
Chasing Madoff Limited
The true-life tale of investigator Harry Markopolos' meticulous, decade-long fight to reveal Madoff's widely destructive Ponzi scheme.
Circumstance 7 theaters
A wealthy family in Iran struggling to contain a teen's growing sexual rebellion.
Colombiana 2,614 theaters
Zoe Saldana Michael Vartan Amandla Stenberg
"Columbiana" is set in Latin America and the U.S. Saldana would play a young woman who, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone... more-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark 2,760 theaters
Katie Holmes Guy Pearce Bailee Madison Jack Thompson
A young girl is sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend and discovers sinister creatures that live underneath the stairs.
Higher Ground New York / Los Angeles
Vera Farmiga Taissa Farmiga Donna Murphy Bill Irwin
Carolyn Briggs grew up with modest means in the Iowa heartland. Pregnant at seventeen, married a few months later, by the age of 18 she found herself living in a trailer ... morewith no plans beyond having more babies-until she found Jesus.
Our Idiot Brother 2,555 theaters
Paul Rudd Elizabeth Banks Zooey Deschanel Emily Mortimer
An idealist, hounded by his overbearing mother, crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition while also wreak... moreing havoc.
Rebirth 2 theaters
The nearly ten-year transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001.
Redemption Road 26 theaters
Michael Clarke Duncan Morgan Simpson Kiele Sanchez Taryn Manning
Two seemingly different men (Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn't a... morebout where you end up - it's how you get there that matters. Somewhere along the 900 miles between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends.
Shut Up Little Man
When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbours, they accidentally created one of the world’s first ‘viral’ pop-culture sensations.
Special Treatment Limited
Isabelle Huppert Bouli Lanners Sabila Moussadek Richard Debuisne
A high class prostitute (Isabelle Huppert) and an eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their professions, seek... moreing a way out that involves unique contact with each other's worlds.
Suing The Devil Los Angeles
Malcolm McDowell Shannen Fields Corbin Bernsen Bart Bronson
A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.
Swinging with the Finkels Limited
Martin Freeman Mandy Moore Melissa George Jonathan Silverman
Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman star as a bored suburban couple that decide to spice up their sex life by swinging.
The Caller Limited
Stephen Moyer Rachelle Lefevre Luis Guzman
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman claiming that she's calling from the past.
The Family Tree
Dermot Mulrony Hope Davis Christina Hendricks Rachael Leigh Cook
Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. And just when the Burnett family - Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 y... moreear olds Eric (Max Theriot) and Kelly (Britt Robertson) - seems a lost cause, they get an unlikely and unexpected second chance at happiness when an unusual accident leaves Bunnie with a case of amnesia.
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